"We believe that this is one of the safest types of aircraft," said Kravchenko an interview with Rossiya-24 TV channel.

On Friday, Boeing representatives are meeting the heads of the Federal Aviation Service of Russia. Kravchenko hoped that organization which imposed the ban, the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), would attend. The IAC aviation safety watchdog oversees all the CIS countries.

In recent there have been two major crashes involving Boeing 737s. In 2008 pilot error caused the death of 88 people on board a plane flown by the airline Aeroflot-Nord. A second crash in Kazan in 2013, which killed 50 people, is still under investigation.